AGE OF CHAUCER

What is the source of the Wife of Bath’s tale?

• Roman de la Rose

• Decameron

• The Bible

• OVID'S Metamorphoses

Chaucer`s Canterbury Tales is based on

• Ariosto`s Orlando Furioso

• Dante`s Divine Comedy

• Boccaccio`s Decameron

• Montaigne`s Essays

The Name of the Prioress in The Canterbury Tales is

• Eglentyne

• Alison

• Beatrice

• Laura

The Peasants Revolt took place in the Year?

• 1380

• 1381

• 1382

• 1383

Which of the following works is a retelling of Chaucer’s “The Knight’s Tale

• The Merry Wives of Windsor

• Love's Labour's Lost

• The Two Noble Kinsmen

• The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Which of the following characters told tale that belong to the “marriage” group of

Tales in The Canterbury Tales?

• Clerk

• Merchant

• Franklin

• All of these

“The dream of chaucer” is a work that is now called_________.

• The house of fame

• canterbury tales

• The Parliament of fowls

• The book of Duchess

To what genre does the Wife of Bath’s Prologue belong?

• Medieval sermon

• Courtly Romance

• Fabliau

• Allegorical confession

In The Canterbury Tales, the Knight tells the first tale because?

• He drank his ale first

• His horse was the fastest

• He drew the shortest straw

• He was the epitome of chivalry

Who of the following wrote A Dream of Fair Women based on the theme of Chaucer’s

The Legend of Good Women?

• William Collins

• Matthew Arnold

• Alfred Tennyson

• Robert Southey